Everyone has a perfect recipe for biscuits. Each household has a meal that would not be a meal without a biscuit. While relatively simple, some of the best biscuits are achieved with little more than flour and finesse. Biscuits have different regional meanings around the world. In the oldest known usage, the bis in biscuit …
You-picks and Strawberry Preserves 101
Firstly, I am sad to share that I lost some of my favorite pictures of the berry picking and jamming venture to a computer crash. Luckily, those were the only thing lost. After some pain and suffering..... Strawberries. Growing up near Plant City, FL, I was pretty spoiled when it came to strawberries and maybe …
Spud and Bud Sauted Salad
Such an over looked food source the daylily is! Easy to propagate and hard to control beds can give you plenty of food to play with. I served this yummy dish with pan seared salmon and a stuffed lily but this vegetable sauté stole the show. Collect green buds of the daylily. I would snip …
Cornbread Baked Chile Poblanos
I am on a chile and corn kick. Chiles, corn and cheese to be more precise. This is something that I have been wanting to make for quite sometime but it has been difficult for me to find enough good poblano peppers at a price that I can afford. Finally I hit the mother load and …
Eating Daylilies
My morning runs are getting slightly less comfortable due to the rising summer temperatures. I now sweat profusely. Something I do not really miss about Florida. The flower colors seem to get bolder as the temperature gets warmer. It is almost as if the flowers are trying to intimidate the sun with equal radiance. I …
Chile Cheese Grits with Cajun Shrimp
Shrimp and Grits, A Pantry Meal. Chile cheese grits were a staple in our house growing up. We might as well have said CCG like Rachel Ray’s EVOO. We ate them often and in quantity. Corn grits themselves are great with brown sugar or maple syrup but once you add cheese, they become instant comfort food in my …
Kitchen Tip: Homegrown Sprouts
Grow Your Own Sprouts Sprouting is easy to do and produces tasty, nutritious, and cheap results using very little space. Most beans and seeds can be sprouted in a simple sprouting jar. Example: A large jar with a wide mouth covered with screen or fabric. The sprouting jar seems to be the easiest to …
Blueberry Dumplings
Oh to pick your own blueberries. In my fondest memories of wild blueberries I think of the sweet juiciness that keeps you going when your hands are grubby. At the time, I was spending my days hiking the Francis Marion National Forest and the crew and I were often knee deep in swamp or thicket. Tough …
Easy Homemade Cheese: Paneer
This recipe was my first foray into cheese making at home. I came across it in an Indian cookbook while I was searching for something like Sag Paneer. I was pleasantly surprised when this same process was presented during the dairy class at Earthwise Farm & Forest. This is cheese 101. It is easy to …
Soft Shell Crab on a BLT
Early summer brings soft shelled crab Once again I have lucked into some mighty fine tastiness. This time, its soft shell crabs. It’s is almost like cheating to eat soft shells. Vulnerable shells that let me eat all the crab with none of the work! Due to the evolution of the world wide market …
Nancy Warner 